2404978535 abd347c8b0 m How To SEO Optimize Your Blog PostFor many bloggers, they fail to realize how important search engine traffic can be because they have been told it’s more important to get Social traffic rather than Search Engine traffic. Failing to bring in targeted traffic is one reason many bloggers stop trying to make money with affiliate programs and find the next scheme to jump into.

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Follow the advice below to SEO optimize every article you upload and start taking advantage of free Internet search engine traffic.

For starters, you should make sure your article url’s are SEO optimized. If you use a free blog service like Google’s Blogger blogs, this is already done. WordPress blogs need a little work. If you use the WordPress blogging platform, then change your permalinks so that the code produces optimized url’s when you make a post.

The way you get this done in WordPress is find the the Permalinks tab, and click the radio button along side the Custom field. Then you’ll put a percentage sign followed by the words Postname. {Immediately after the words postname, Now} add another percentage sign. Now all your blog post will have optimized addresses.

The most important tip on SEO optimizing your blog is to put the keyword in the Title of your blog. Let’s say you’re blogging about ways to earn extra cash, then make sure these keywords are in the Title of your blog. If your blog is about Dogs, then don’t use something unrelated like your name in the title unless you also have the word Dog in there also. Using the keywords in the Title, then you’ll rank higher than if you name the blog something that does not tell the search engine what your blogs about.

You’re next step is to use your keywords in the Post’s title. If you’re targeting traffic to come to your post about online auctions to make money at home, then your keywords need to be in your post title. Not irrelevant keywords like How I Make Money With Auctions. Doing this prevents the search engine bots from figuring out what your post is about and prevents search engine users from finding your blog post. If you’re using Adsense to monetize your blog, this is a very important tip to get targeted traffic for high paying keywords.

If you’ll use these 3 easy to follow tips, you will be helping the Search Engines determine what your post is about. By making it easy easy for them to understand what your post is about, they’ll rank you higher than a non-optimized blog.

Now to fully take advantage of all this optimizing, you’ll need to build links to each post. Ahh, but link building is a whole nother article that has to be saved for later. First, get acquainted optimizing your own blog and blog post.

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